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Space Filling Quickly for UITA 2005 “Hall of Fame”

-Seventh annual event to honor Homer R. Warner, M.D., PhD, and Drew Major, Novell NetWare pioneer-

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – October 10, 2005 – Space is filling quickly for the Utah Information Technology Association (UITA)’s 7th Annual “Hall of Fame” celebration. More than half of the tables have already been sold for this year’s event, which will honor Drew Major and Homer R. Warner M.D., PhD, in a celebration that will be held Friday, December 2, 2005, in the Grand Ballroom of the Downtown Marriott, 75 South West Temple. Click here to register and for more on the event

The “Hall of Fame” event is the premier recognition evening for the Utah IT industry. UITA honors individuals with Utah ties who have made key contributions to the IT industry through technology, innovation and/or business. These individuals’ groundbreaking contributions have created jobs, commercialized technology, improved productivity and stimulated the nation’s growth and development.

“Every one of the annual Hall of Fame ceremonies has been a spectacular success,” said Richard Nelson, UITA President. “We are especially pleased to announce this year’s two new inductees, Dr. Homer Warner and Drew Major, and to welcome community leaders to join us for the tremendous opportunity of hearing a keynote address from Mark Hurd, president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard.”

About Drew Major, Lead Architect & Developer of NetWare

Drew Major was one of the founders of Novell and the lead architect and developer of NetWare for over 15 years. In 1981 Drew and his partners Kyle Powell, Dale Neibaur and Mark Hurst saw the value of enabling PCs to share files and other resources via local area networks (LAN). By 1991 NetWare was the “killer app” that was driving PC and most LAN deployments. Novell created and owned 75% of the market for network operating systems. One magazine estimated that NetWare’s $1 billion in yearly sales was driving many times that amount in network and server hardware, PCs, consulting, and other value-added sales.

Drew continues to be a passionate developer of high performance network server software. He enjoys designing and coding software that squeezes the maximum performance out of microprocessors, disk drives and networks. In 2000 Drew started Move Networks, which recently has built technology that reliably streams high-quality video over the Internet. Major left Novell in 2003 and, with Paul Sherer (ex-3Com CTO responsible for Ethernet’s success), founded Arroyo Video Solutions. Arroyo builds high-performance video servers for the cable industry and telcos.

In 1995 BYTE magazine named Drew one of the 20 Most Influential People for the previous 20 years of the computer industry. He was inducted into the National Computer Industry Hall of Fame in 1999.

Major received his Bachelor of Science degree from Brigham Young University in 1980, graduating with high honors in mathematics and computer science. He was born in California but has lived most of his life in Utah. He currently resides in Orem with his wife, Mary, and their four sons.

About Dr. Homer Warner, M.D., PhD, One of the Fathers of Medical Informatics

A Morris Collen award recipient, Dr. Homer R. Warner, has pioneered many aspects of computer applications to medicine. He was the first chair of the Department of Medical Informatics at the University of Utah, the first medical school in the U.S. to formally organize a degree in medical informatics. Author of the book, Computer-Assisted Medical Decision-Making, published in 1979, he also served as CIO for the U’s Health Sciences Center, as president of the American College of Medical Informatics (where an award has been created in his honor), and was actively involved with the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Warner served as director of the cardiovascular laboratory at LDS Hospital from 1954 to 1970 and was honored as Physician of the Year in 1985.

In 1988, he was elected to senior membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. New members are chosen for major contributions to health and medicine as well as from related fields.

For over 25 years, Dr. Warner has served almost continuously on research review groups for the National Institutes of Health, the National Center for Health Services Research and the National Library of Medicine.

Dr. Warner received his Bachelor’s and Medical Degree from the University of Utah and his PhD. in Physiology from the University of Minnesota. He and his wife, Katherine Romney, have six children.

UITA’S Seventh Annual “Hall of Fame” will begin with a networking reception at 6:00 p.m. The cost of the black-tie (invited) event is $175 for UITA members and $250 for non-UITA members and guests and registration for the event can be completed at www.uita.org/halloffame.

For information on sponsorships and tables, contact Mark Lehnhof at (801) 568-3500 or mark@uita.org. Proceeds from the dinner will help foster the growth of Utah’s high-tech community.

About UITA
As Utah’s premier professional organization for technology companies, the Utah Information Technology Association (UITA) exists to form closer relationships with industry and community leaders, develop superior management talent, sharpen professional skills and help gain access to capital. For more information on UITA, please visit http://www.uita.org.

Agency Contact:
Cheryl Snapp Conner
Snapp Norris Group
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E) cheryl.snapp@sng.com

UITA:
Judy Young
T) 801.568.3500
E) jyoung@uita.org